Editorial II: Audit—using both the good and the bad news to improve patient care

Patient comfort during regional anesthesia

“…Audit and quality assurance are also essential in improving patient satisfaction [100]. In a survey of the practice of regional anesthesia in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the authors concluded that concepts of training and quality assurance that are backed up by evidence-based medicine should be established to improve training and further education in regional anesthesia practice [101].…”

Nursing Care Quality in the Cardiac Care Unit: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…Compared to the present study, it can be said that in Baqiyatallah Hospital, communication skills were good among quality care dimensions, which showed that nursing staff had a good relationship with colleagues and patients and this does not require an intervention to improve after quality of care. In another study, the effect of the clinical audit process on the level of tracheal suctioning skills in nurses and anesthetized technicians in 2015 was investigated by Farsi et al The results showed that there was no significant difference between the two groups before the study, but there was a significant difference between the two groups after the intervention (17). ComCrit Care Nurs J.…”

“…The aforementioned tool was first designed and presented by a Ph.D. Nursing student, Mrs. Farnoosh Rashvand, in 2015 in a combined study (17). This tool was reviewed by Rashvand et al in 2015, and the validity of the structure and its content was confirmed and its reliability using the internal consistency method gave the value of 0.97.…”